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R. Bechtel, whose resignation from the Pennsylvania College and Station has 

 been previously noted, and J. Marshall Brannon, as instructors in botany; 

 Wallace R. Chandler as instructor in parasitology; Dr. W. T. M. Forbes as 

 instructor in entomology ; C. H. Guise as instructor in forestry ; Edward Riley 

 King as assistant professor of bee culture; J. O. McCurdy as instructor in 

 farm engineering ; William E. Mordoff as instructor in farm mechanics ; Gilbert 

 W. Peck as instructor in pomologj^ ; J. R. Schramm as assistant professor in 

 botany; and Roy Glenn Wiggans as instructor in farm crops. C. E. Ladd, of 

 the department of farm management, has been appointed director of the New 

 York State School of Agriculture at Delhi. 



Ohio State University and Station. — Correspondence courses in agi-iculture 

 are being offered for the first time, 22 of these courses being announced. The 

 registration numbers over 150. 



John F. Cunningham, of Cleveland, and John Kaiser, of Marietta, have been 

 appointed to the governing board of the university. Dr. Alfred Vivian has been 

 appointed dean of the college of agriculture, Clark S. Wheeler, director of agri- 

 cultural extension, and George W. Bush, state leader of county agents with 

 headquarters at the college of agriculture. Other appointments include Dr. 

 Paul L. Vogt, professor of sociology at Miami University, as professor of rural 

 economics ; IMilligan C. Kilpatrick as instructor in poultry in the extension 

 department beginning October 1 ; Ivan McKellip as field agent in cow testing ; 

 S. M. Salesbury, instructor in animal husbandry and dairying in the North 

 Carolina College, as assistant professor of animal husbandry ; P. H. Elwood, of 

 the Massachusetts College, as assistant in horticulture ; and Virgil Overholt as 

 instructor in agricultural engineering in the extension service. N. R. Elliott, 

 assistant in horticulture, has accepted an appointment as assistant horticulturist 

 in the Kentucky University and Station. 



In the station, B. S. Davtsson has been appointed assistant in soil biology and 

 W. C. Boardman assistant in the soil survey. 



Oregon College and Station.^ — The Withycombe Animal Husbandry Club, 

 named in honor of Governor James Withycombe, formerly director of the 

 /station, has been organized by the students of the animal husbandry depart- 

 ment to establish closer relations with their instructors and the practical live- 

 stock men of the State. 



Recent appointments include the following: W. J. Gilmore, of the Manitoba 

 College, as assistant professor of farm mechanics, vice E. M. D. Bracker, 

 resigned to engage in farming in Illinois; A. C. McCulloch, instructor in animal 

 husbandry at the Ontario College, as instructor of poultry husbandry, vice 

 A. G. Lunn ; Roy E. Marshall as instructor in horticulture ; L. Eugene Robin- 

 son, a graduate in architecture in the University of Pennsylvania, as instructor 

 in rural architecture ; and H. A. Vickers as secretary of college extension, vice 

 Paul INI. Collins. A. L. Lovett, associate professor of entomology, has been 

 appointed acting head of the department of entomology of the college and 

 station, vice H. F. Wilson, whose resignation is noted elsewhere. 



Wisconsin University and Station. — A special field course in farm manage- 

 ment was offered at the college of agriculture from June 21 to July 30. The 

 class of about 12 students was quartered in tents pitched in successful farming 

 regions, and gave considerable time to observing the farm practice in the 

 vicinity. 



Under a new law, the state department of agriculture has been reorganized 

 with C. P. Norgord, superintendent of farmers' institutes, at its head. It now 

 consolidates the former department of agriculture, which had under its control 

 the management of the state fair; the state board of immigration; the state 

 live stock sanitary board, which had control of infectious animal diseases ; and 



